Comments on: leaves http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/leaves/ navigating the spaces between in and out Sat, 05 Dec 2009 05:33:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: GG http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/leaves/#comment-261 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:10:00 +0000 http://awakenings.blogsome.com/2008/11/07/leaves/#comment-261 I came out to my mother fairly easily because I was older, because we had always been close, and because I was 1500 miles away at the time. But later, at her house, I tried to explain it to her in a way that she could understand on a more "visceral" level, and what I told her was that for the first time in my life, in 45 years, I was in a relationship, and I felt NORMAL. I felt like I finally had a chance, like all my other friends who were married, and happy, etc., that *I* finally had a chance to have that, which I had never felt in ANY of my relationships with men. FINALLY, finally, it was MY TURN to have what everyone wants. She teared up, and then, I think she actually "got" it. Oh, and the glasses thing--EXACTLY what happened to me when I really did get glasses at age 7, but it's also a perfect analogy, too. Bless you for sharing it. GG I came out to my mother fairly easily because I was older, because we had always been close, and because I was 1500 miles away at the time. But later, at her house, I tried to explain it to her in a way that she could understand on a more “visceral” level, and what I told her was that for the first time in my life, in 45 years, I was in a relationship, and I felt NORMAL. I felt like I finally had a chance, like all my other friends who were married, and happy, etc., that *I* finally had a chance to have that, which I had never felt in ANY of my relationships with men. FINALLY, finally, it was MY TURN to have what everyone wants. She teared up, and then, I think she actually “got” it. Oh, and the glasses thing–EXACTLY what happened to me when I really did get glasses at age 7, but it’s also a perfect analogy, too.

Bless you for sharing it.

GG

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